Yes, well I'd like to say I thought of the bucket extension right away, because it does seem to be an obvious solution now, in retrospect. But, I only thought of it after wasting a lot of time trying to think of everything else.
Thinking "outside the bucket" usually comes easy for me.
I'll have to chalk that up to an aging cerebrum.
But, the trailer unload-er was a project I wanted to do for a long time.
After the mulch test, I tested it with 5000 lbs of gravel, it passed.